Dark Vaporeon Reverse Holo #9 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 22 Oct 2026Related Dark Vaporeon & chase cards
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Dark Vaporeon is one of those cards that stops you mid-scroll, a Holo Rare pulled straight from the 2002 Legendary Collection set and brought to life by Mitsuhiro Arita's artwork. If you're trying to pin down Dark Vaporeon value today, the short answer is that a raw, ungraded copy sits at $425, which tells you this is a card collectors still chase more than two decades after it was printed. It's the kind of card that rewards patience, whether you already own one or you're just starting to wonder what it's worth.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $425, up 136% over the past year, with an all-time high of $425 in October 2026.
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Dark Vaporeon price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 1,575 graded, only 57 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $6.3k | 57 | 37 / 20 |
| PSA 9 | $2.0k | 298 | 249 / 49 |
| PSA 8 | $1.6k | 412 | 325 / 87 |
| PSA 7 | $646 | 287 | 237 / 50 |
| PSA 6 | $490 | 212 | 188 / 24 |
| PSA 5 | $383 | 148 | 129 / 19 |
| PSA 4 | $257 | 71 | 59 / 12 |
| PSA 3 | $219 | 31 | 29 / 2 |
| PSA 2 | $141 | 17 | 15 / 2 |
| PSA 1 | $269 | 42 | 42 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $425 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 9 of 110
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- 2002
Attacks
- Bite30Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
- Whirlpool20Water · Water · Colorless
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The collector's take on Dark Vaporeon
Is Dark Vaporeon worth grading?
Here's the number that makes people pause: a PSA 10 Dark Vaporeon sells for $39,904, which works out to 93.9x what you'd get for the same card raw at $425. That gap is enormous, and it's exactly why so many owners ask whether grading is worth it. The honest answer is that it depends on your copy. A true gem mint, with sharp corners, perfect centering and no surface wear, can transform a $425 card into something worth tens of thousands. But hitting a PSA 10 on a 2002 card is genuinely hard, print lines, edge wear and centering issues from that era catch a lot of submissions out, and a Grade 9 at $2,674 is a far more common outcome than people expect. Grading costs money and time regardless of what comes back, so it only makes sense if you've looked closely at your card under good light and genuinely believe it's pack fresh. If you're not sure, it's worth asking someone who's graded a few before you send it in.
How rare is Dark Vaporeon?
Across every grading company, there are 1,575 graded copies of Dark Vaporeon on record, and of those, only 57 have ever been awarded a PSA 10. That's a tiny sliver of the total population sitting at the very top of the grading scale, which tells you how demanding this card is to grade perfectly even now, with more than twenty years of collectors trying. When a card is this hard to find in gem mint condition, the price for those rare PSA 10 copies climbs well beyond what the raw or mid-grade market suggests, and that's exactly what we see reflected in the $39,904 figure. Scarcity like this is also why collectors keep circling back to Dark Vaporeon rather than moving on to newer sets, it's a card where condition genuinely decides your outcome.
Where can you pull Dark Vaporeon?
This is where PackSpy's data does something no price guide can: we've independently tracked 17 real pulls of Dark Vaporeon across pack sites, specifically on collector-crypt and courtyard. The biggest recorded pull value from those hits sits at $61, a reminder that pulling the card itself is only step one, the real value only shows up once it's graded. We've seen Dark Vaporeon surface in the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, the Pokémon Pro Pack and the Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, so those are the listings worth keeping an eye on if you're hoping to rip your own copy rather than buy one outright. Worth saying plainly though, opening packs is a gamble and most rips don't come close to covering their cost, so treat any pull as a bonus, not a plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Dark Vaporeon worth?+
A raw, ungraded Dark Vaporeon is currently valued at $425. Grade it to a 9 and that climbs to $2,674, and a PSA 10 is worth $39,904, which is 93.9 times the raw price. The jump shows just how much condition and grading change the picture for this card.
Is Dark Vaporeon worth grading?+
It can be, if your copy is genuinely sharp. With only 57 PSA 10s out of 1,575 total graded copies, gem mint is rare, so grading is really a bet on condition. If your card has clean corners and good centering it's worth considering, but go in knowing most copies land at Grade 9 or below rather than hitting that top tier.
Why is the Dark Vaporeon Reverse Holo #9 print worth more than the standard one?+
The reverse holo treatment flips where the shine sits on the card, covering the background in holofoil instead of just the artwork, which makes it visually distinct and harder to pull in that specific print run. Collectors tend to value that rarer, less common version more highly simply because fewer of them exist in circulation, and this is reflected in the premium pricing collectors pay for the Reverse Holo #9 specifically.
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